Eugene de Beauharnais

Eugene de Beauharnais (3 September 1781-21 February 1824) was the stepson of Napoleon Bonaparte and the commander of the Army of Italy under the French Empire.

Biography
Born in Paris, Eugene was the son of Alexandre and Josephine de Beauharnais. His father was guillotined in the reign of terror and his mother married Napoleon Bonaparte, who was a rising general in the First French Republic. Eugene became the future emperor's stepson, and he served as aide-de-camp to Napoleon in the Italian Campaign and accompanied him in his Egyptian Campaign of 1798-1800. He later fought in the Europe Campaign at the Battle of Wagram in 1809 after fighting Archduke Charles in Italy. He later fought in Napoleon's masterful defensive campaigns in Germany against the Fifth Coalition, but after Napoleon's abdication in 1814, he retired to Bavaria and was not involved with him again.